Hey, I'm not a bot and I participate in flat earthery. It isn't so much that I believe it is flat than it is a position I take to mock religious "$cientists" and try to redpill them in the ways they are or at least may be tricked by figures they view as authority. I like the term "borrowed authority" because it usually only takes a couple questions to expose people as unthinking parrots. What interests me is they take definitively unscientific claims and defend them with the same amount of zeal one might take if you tried to argue what their own name is.

For your own thought experiment: can you scientifically prove the earth is round? Before you start borrowing authority all over the place here, let me remind you of they key ingredients to real science; observable, testable, repeatable. Avid flat earthers have covered most of the expiriments that fit in this range. Their claimed results: earth is flat! Their real results: inconclusive (but often containing disproofs of round claims rather than actual roundness), but inconclusive is a terribly exciting result to a properly set up experiment, especially in an attempt to disprove reigning rhetoric using their own experiments.

I unironically think NASA is full of shit; money laundering at best, malicious deception at worst. The rise of other space agencies does very little to change my mind on this and I approach them with skepticism always. I have little faith they have done anything but copy a successful and popular money laundering scheme, and this new blink 182 nonsense is almost an open admission of aiming to do similar.

For anyone curious about idea; I recommend starting with something simple, like finding out how we know the distance from the earth to the sun (which has changed several times in my own life, each time with religious defenders asserting it a pure truth, a "scientific fact").

Anyways, I'm not on voat much, but if you don't mind waiting for an answer, drop me some questions.